Hot & Spicy Beanburger

Infobox Album |
Name = Hot & Spicy Beanburger
Type = Album
Artist = Dread Zeppelin


Released = 1993
Genre = Hard rock, reggae rock
Length = 48:58
Label = Birdcage Records
Producer = Jah Paul Jo (Joe Ramsey)
Rasta Li-Mon (Lee Manning)
Reviews =
Last album = "It's Not Unusual"
(1992)
This album = "Hot & Spicy Beanburger
(1993)
Next album = "No Quarter Pounder"
(1995)

"Hot and Spicy Beanburger " is the fourth studio album by Dread Zeppelin, released in 1993. This album is know mainly for “the return of of Tortelvis” who was not on the previous album "It's Not Unusual" (criticized by many fans due to a sharp turn into Disco territory).
Hot and spicy beanburger brings back the sound of “Led Zeppelin in a reggae style”, with (of course) a great Elvis voice.
The album brings numerous new Led Zeppelin cover songs, such as "Good Times Bad Times", "Going to California" and "Hot Dog".
The album has two non Led Zeppelin songs: "Unchained Melody" and "Good Rocking Tonight", a song also covered by Robert Plant on his album "" under the name "Rockin' at Midnight".
Like on "5,000,000" the album brings a few songs by Dread Zeppelin themselves: “The Ballad of Charlie Haj” about the band member Charlie Haj “the man that hands Tortelvis his water and towel on stage” a running gag in all of Dread Zeppelin album credits and live shows. Also the song “Hot and Spicy Beanburger” described by Tortelvis as “a kind of informal session with this recording thing we’re gonna do with some friends of mine”.

The leaflet list songs and credits using a strange font composed of all kinds of characters (like "βallad "of" ¢hĀrlie Häј" see cover for sample), generally ignoring upper case, with a background of burger bread, a picture of the band members (in costume) placed on lettuce and tomatoes as if condiments. A quote states: “Hot & spicy beanburger is a tasty tid-bit o’love… A plentiful portion O’peace… A royal repast set before the king.” Credited to “Unknown Eastern Mystic (1956)”.

Track listing

#"Good Times, Bad Times" (Bonham, Page, Jones) - 3:25
#"Going to California" (Page, Plant) - 3:47
#"Good Rocking Tonight" (Roy Brown) - 3:29
#"Kashmir" (Bonham, Page, Plant) - 9:57
#"Ballad of Charlie Haj" (Ramsey, Putman, Haasis) - 3:38
#"Unchained Melody" (North, Zaret) - 3:15
#"Stairway to Heaven" (Page, Plant) - 7:00
#"Hot and Spicy Beanburger" (Ramsey, Putman, Haasis, Tortell) - 1:08
#"Hotdog" (Page, Plant) - 2:57
#"All of My Love" (Plant, Jones) - 6:05
#"Wot Happened? [The sloppy shuffle] " (Ramsey, Putman, Haasis) - 4:17

Note that Dread Zeppelin changes the songs syntax or name from the original Led Zeppelin version on purpose, they are listed here like on the album.

Band Members

*Tortelvis - Lead singer
*Ed Zeppelin - congas, vocals and toast (burnt).
*Jah Paul Jo - cosmic stun guitar
*Butt Mon - porn bass
*Carl Jah - Guitar
*Spice - drums

Additional credits

*Jah Jah Gabor: pinao & alien invasion
*Bun-E-Slopes: harmonica
*I-Lar-E-Treadwell: auto harp, magic bat & vocals
*I-Max: good vibes & vocals
*Colonel Kane: introduction
*Mar-I-Stradivar-I: violin
*Background vocals by the Michael Jordanaires & Merci & The Merkettes as the “Sweet Perspirations”
*Charlie Haj is the man that hands Tortelvis his water & towel on stage.

Production

*Produced by Jah Paul Jo & Rasta Li-Mon
*Engineered by Rasta Li-Mon
*Recorded @ the clubhouse, Burbank, ca
*Assistant engineers: Efren Herrera & Conrad Kalil
*Mixed @ The Chapel, Encino, ca
*Assistant Engineer: Andy Warwick
*Mastered by Doug “d.o.g.” dish Schwartz

*Art Direction: Bryant Fernandez for Graphic cents
*PhotographyMyron (trigger-happy) Beck
*Repped 2-d bone by Kirk Thornby
*Managed “despite the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” by Charly Prevost, Studio City, ca 91604-3040
*Assisted by those men amongst men: Alan “u-turn” Grange, Darrell Bussino & Tom Hamilton
*Guitars assembled w/incredible precision by dave Cervantes & Karl Sandoval
*Only Dean Markley strings vibrate on this album as ably strung by our man, David Wilson.

*Charlie Haj uses Ken Fuller & Assiciates towels exclusively!